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327.7 Access by individuals.§ 327.7 Access by individuals.
(a) Individual access to personal information. Release of personal information to individuals whose records are maintained in a systems of records under this part is not considered public release of information. DeCA will release to the individuals all of the personal information, except to the extent the information is contained in an exempt system of records.
(1) Requests for access. (i) Individuals in DeCA Headquarters and FOAs will address requests for access to their personal information to the DeCA Privacy Act Officers. Individuals in Regions, CDCs, and commissaries, will address requests to their respective Region Privacy Act Coordinator. The individual is not required to explain or justify why access is being sought.
(ii) If an individual wishes to be accompanied by a third party when seeking access to his or her records or to have the records released directly to the third party, a signed access authorization granting the third party access is required.
(iii) A DeCA individual will not be denied access to his or her records because he or she refuses to provide his or her SSN unless the SSN is the only way retrieval can be made.
(2) Granting access. (i) If the record is not part of an exempt system, DeCA personnel will be granted access to the original record or an exact copy of the original record without any changes or deletions. Medical records will be disclosed to the individual to whom they pertain unless an individual fails to comply with the established requirements. This includes refusing to name a physician to receive medical records when required, refusing to pay fees, or when a judgment is made that access to such records may have an adverse effect on the mental or physical health of the individual. Where an adverse effect may result, a release will be made in consultation with a physician.
(ii) DeCA personnel may be denied access to information compiled in reasonable anticipation of a civil action or proceeding. The term "civil proceeding" is intended to include quasi-judicial and pretrial judicial proceedings. Information prepared in conjunction with the quasi-judicial, pretrial and trial proceedings to include those prepared by DeCA legal and non-legal officials of the possible consequences of a given course of action are protected from access.
(iii) Requests by DeCA personnel for access to investigatory records pertaining to themselves, compiled for law enforcement purposes, are processed under this part and that of 32 CFR part 310. Those requests by DeCA personnel for investigatory records pertaining to themselves that are in records systems exempt from access provisions shall be processed under this part or 32 CFR part 285, depending upon which provides the greatest degree of access.
(3) Non agency records. (i) Uncirculated personal notes and records that are not given or circulated to any person or organization (example, personal telephone list) that are kept or discarded at the author's discretion and over which DeCA exercises no direct control, are not considered DeCA records. However, if personnel are officially directed or encouraged, either in writing or orally, to maintain such records, they may become "agency records" and may be subject to this part.
(ii) Personal uncirculate handwritten notes of team leaders, office supervisors, or military supervisory personnel concerning subordinates are not a system of records within the meaning of this part. Such notes are an extension of the individual's memory. These notes, however, must be maintained and discarded at the discretion of the individual supervisor and not circulated to others. Any established requirement to maintain such notes (written or oral directives, regulation or command policy) make these notes "AGENCY RECORDS." If the notes are circulated, they must be made a part of the system of records. Any action that gives personal notes the appearance of official agency records is prohibited unless they have been incorporated into a DeCA system of records.
(b) Relationship between the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). (1) Requests from DeCA individuals for access to a record pertaining to themselves made under the FOIA are processed under the provisions of this part, 32 CFR part 310 and DeCA Directive 30-12, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Program. 5
5 See footnote 3 to § 327.5.
(2) Request from DeCA individuals or access to a record pertaining to themselves are processed under this part and 32 CFR part 310.
(3) Requests from DeCA individuals for access to records about themselves that cite both Acts or the DeCA implementing directives for both Acts are processed under this part except:
(i) When the access provisions of the FOIA provide a greater degree of access process under the FOIA, or
(ii) When access to the information sought is controlled by another Federal statute process access procedures under the controlling statute.
(4) Requests from DeCA individuals for access to information about themselves in a system of records that do not cite either Act or DeCA implementing directive are processed under the procedures established by this part.
(5) DeCA requesters will not be denied access to personal information concerning themselves that would be releasable to them under either Act because they fail to cite either Act or the wrong Act. The Act or procedures used in granting or denying access will be explained to requesters.,
(6) DeCA requesters should receive access to their records within 30 days.
(7) Records in all DeCA systems maintained in accordance with the Government-wide systems notices are in temporary custody of DeCA, and all requests or amend these records will be processed in accordance with this part.
(c) Denial of individual access. (1) A DeCA individual may be denied formal access to a record pertaining to him/her only if the record:
(i) Was compiled in reasonable anticipation of civil action.
(ii) Is in a system of records that has been exempt from access provisions of this part.
(iii) All systems of records maintained by the Defense Commissary Agency shall be exempt from the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 552a(d) pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(1) to the extent that the system contains any information properly classified under Executive Order 12958 and which is required by the Executive Order to be withheld in the interest of national defense or foreign policy. This exemption, which may be applicable to parts of all systems of records, is necessary because certain record systems not otherwise specifically designated for exemptions herein may contain items of information that have been properly classified.
(iv) Is contained in a system of records for which access may be denied under some other Federal statute.
(v) All systems of records maintained by the DeCA shall be exempt from the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 552a(d) pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(1) to the extent that the system contains any information properly classified under Executive Order 12958 and which is required by the Executive Order to be withheld in the interest of national defense of foreign policy. This exemption, which may be applicable to parts of all systems of records, is necessary because certain record systems not otherwise specifically designated for exemptions herein may contain items of information that have been properly classified.
(2) DeCA individuals will only be denied access to those portions of the records from which the denial of access serves some legitimate governmental purpose.
(3) Other reasons to refuse DeCA individuals are:
(i) The request is not described well enough to locate it within a reasonable amount of effort by the PA Officer or PA Coordinator; or
(ii) An individual fails to comply with the established requirements including refusing to name a physician to receive medical records when required or to pay fees.
(4) Only the DeCA IDA can deny access. This denial must be in writing and contain:
(i) The date of the denial, name, title of position, and signature of the DeCA Initial Denial Authority.
(ii) The specific reasons for the denial, including specific reference to the appropriate sections of the PA, other statutes, this part or the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR);
(iii) Information providing the right to appeal the denial through the DeCa appeal procedure within 60 days, and the title, position and address of the DeCA PA Appellate Authority.
(5) DeCA Appeal Procedures. The Director of DeCA, or the designee, will review any appeal by an individual from a denial of access to DeCA records. Formal written notification will be provided to the individual explaining whether the denial is sustained totally or in part. The DeCA PA Officer will:
(i) Assign a control number and process the appeal to the Director, DeCA or the designee appointed by the Director.
(ii) Provide formal written notification to the individual by the appeal authority explaining whether the denial is sustained totally or in part and the exact reasons for the denial to include provisions of the Act, other statute, this part or the CFR whichever the determination is based, or
(iii) Provide the individual access to the material if the appeal is granted.
(iv) Process all appeals within 30 days of receipt unless the appeal authority determines the review cannot be made within that period and provide notification to the individual the reasons for the delay and when an answer may be expected.
(d) Amendment of records. (1) DeCA employees are encouraged to review the personal information being maintained abut them periodically. An individual may request amendment of any record contained in a system of records unless the system of records has been exempt specifically from the amendment procedures by the Director, DeCa. A request for amendment must include:
(i) A description of the item or items to be amended.
(ii) The specific reason for the amendment.
(iii) The type of amendment action such as deletion, correction or addition.
(iv) Copies of evidence supporting the request.
(v) DeCA employees may be required to provide identification to make sure that they are indeed seeking to amend a record pertaining to themselves.
(2) The amendment process is not intended to permit the alteration of evidence presented in the course of judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. Amendments to these records are made through specific procedures established for the amendment of these records.
(i) Written notification will be provided to the requester within 10 working days of its receipt by the DeCA PA Officer. No notification will be provided to the requester if the action completed within the 10 days. Only under exceptional circumstances will more than 30 days be required to reach the decision to amend a request. If the decision is to grant all or in part of the request for amendment, the record will be amended and the requester informed and all other offices/personnel known to be keeping the information.
(ii) If the request for amendment is denied in whole or in part, The PA Officer will notify the individual in writing and provide the specific reasons and the procedures for appealing the decision.
(iii) All appeals are to be processed within 30 days. If additional time is required, the requester will be informed and provided when a final decision may be expected.
(e) Fee assessments. (1) DeCA personnel will only be charged the direct cost of copying and reproduction, computed using the appropriate portions of the fee schedule in DeCA Directive 30-12. 6 Normally, fees are waived automatically if the direct costs of a given request are less than $30. This fee waiver provision does not apply when a waiver has been granted to the individual before, and later requests appear to be an extension or duplication of that original request. Decisions to waive or reduce fees that exceed the automatic waiver threshold will be made on a case-by-case basis. Fees may not be charged when:
6 See footnote 3 to § 327.5.
(i) Copying is performed for the convenience of the Government or is the only means to make the record available for the individual.
(ii) No reading room is available for the individual to review the record or a copy is made to keep the original in DeCA files.
(iii) The information may be obtained without charge under any other regulation, directive, or statute.
(2) No fees will be collected for search, retrieval, and review of records to determine releasability, copying of records when the individual has not requested a copy, transportation of records and personnel, or normal postage.


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DETROIT – The defense in the Kwame Kilpatrick federal corruption trial alleged Friday that after defendant Bernard Kilpatrick worked to secure a city of Detroit contract worth more than $1.1 billion, he was victimized- lied to, manipulated and ultimately unjustly cut out of financial compensation he had rightfully earned.
Government witness James Rosendall Jr, a former executive with Houston-based Synagro Technologies, testified yesterday to making lavish gifts and cash payments to Kilpatrick out of fear that otherwise the deal would be blown up. Read: James Rosendall Jr. testifies he bribed former Detroit mayor. In 2009, Rosendall pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery. He served 11 months and paid a $250,000 fine. The witness still has another year on supervised release. John Shea, Kilpatrick's defense lawyer, made a strong argument today that the witness lied and manipulated not just Kilpatrick but his own bosses at Synagro Technologies. The city contract itself involved turning sewage into a glass aggregate and stood to make Synagro $47 million annually. Rosendall agreed with Shea that he had strong financial incentive to make sure the lucrative Detroit deal happened. The witness testified that over a 25 year period, he stood to gain millions from a compensation package and the sale of a piece of property to house a facility for the sewage project.
Shea also argued that Rosendall had good cause to hire Kilpatrick because Synagro needed someone to help them address community concerns about the project. The defense lawyer pushed the witness to recall if in fact it wasn't former Kwame Kilpatrick confidant turned government star witness Derrick Miller who recommended that Rosendall hire Kilpatrick to help with those concerns. Rosendall testified that he recalled discussing community outreach with Miller but nothing about hiring Kilpatrick. In his direct testimony yesterday, Rosendall had said that they already had a Lansing-based consulting firm working for them at the time. But, argued Shea, wasn't it better to hire someone intimately experienced with the political landscape of Wayne County and Detroit.
"I don't know about experience but I know he was connected," replied Rosendall not so obliquely referring to Kilpatrick's relationship to his son the former Detroit mayor. Shea also introduced text messages that proved that Kilpatrick worked to help set a meeting with former Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) director Victor Mercado in 2004. Meeting Mercado would definitely have been important to securing the contract with the DWSD. In a February 18th 2004 text exchange between former Kilpatrick aide Michael Tardif and Bernard Kilpatrick, Tardif texts: "Cool...hey jr wondering if you could set up a meeting with Victor early next week." "JR" is a reference to James Rosendall. Bernard replies: "I am working on that now." Rosendall agreed with Shea that Synagro had a problem with Kilpatrick, aka "BK", being too close to the mayor and that was why they ultimately agreed to hire on Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson. Rosendall also agreed that even after Jackson was hired on, he understood that Bernard maintained a financial agreement with the deal to split the total $7 to $8 million expected compensation 50/50. Rosendall confirmed that he would travel from his home in Grand Rapids to Detroit on a weekly basis and frequently scheduled business lunch meetings. Shea produced no less than 9 receipts submitted on Rosendall's Synagro expense account for lunches in Detroit in the period between June 8th 2005 and May 9th 2006.
All 9 lunches involved Bernard Kilpatrick and 6 included Rayford Jackson as well. Jackson and Kilpatrick, however, fell out when talk arose of a modification to their agreement. Up to that point, the men maintained a "man-to-man" verbal agreement. In the summer of 2007, Rosendall, Jackson, Kilpatrick and Kilpatrick's girlfriend Akunna Olumba met to discuss modifying the agreement to include Olumba. One reason proposed, said Shea, was to have Olumba participate in minority solicitation. But the other, much more important reason, was to protect Kilpatrick's interest with Jackson by having it flow through Olumba. And that way too, Kilpatrick could still keep from being officially named in the agreement. But Jackson made clear he was not interested in any such modifications. And so, said Shea, that is when the witness decided to manipulate Kilpatrick. In the first of numerous telephone recordings produced by Shea, an October 2007 telephone conversation, Rosendall tells Jackson about Kilpatrick: "I'll play that thing out and string him along." He further adds, "He's not going to be able to stop that man from signing the deal." "That man" being former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Read: Inside court: Kilpatrick Friday trial day 57.
Stall tactics with Bernard on the agreement were the subject of several more conversations between Jackson and Rosendall. On December 20th 2007, Rosendall called Jackson to discuss the angry voice message Kilpatrick had left him to call him back "vacation or no motherf%^&ing". In the recording, Rosendall proposes telling Kilpatrick that he went to Philadelphia the day before to meet Synagro's CEO to discuss the agreement. Jackson then says that Rosendall should also tell Kilpatrick that one of the reasons he can't do anything with the agreement is that Jackson is under investigation and the agreement is with General Counsel. "That was a lie," said Shea. Yes said Rosendall. And the lies just kept coming.
In a telephone recording from later that same day, Rosendall is heard telling Kilpatrick, huffing and puffing on a treadmill, exactly the story concocted with Jackson. He also lets Kilpatrick know that, over the last 6 months, Jackson has already received $230,000 in compensation and that is part of the reason Synagro is holding up the "signing fees" for the approval of the contract by City Council and mayor Kilpatrick in November 2007.
So that's more lies about why the agreement isn't going forward asked Shea. Yes conceded the witness. In that same recording, Rosendall arranges to meet Kilpatrick in the parking lot outside his offices. Yesterday, Rosendall testified that they met in the parking lot because Kilpatrick was afraid that his office was being bugged. "In fact it was your suggestion to meet outside," asked Shea. Again, yes replied Rosendall. Shea claimed that at this time Bernard was broke and needed this money. Rosendall agreed that he encouraged Bernard's belief that he would get his half of the signing bonus by Christmas.
~Bernard Kilpatrick~
But, in fact, he did nothing to make it happen. Still on December 20th 2007, Rosendall is overheard telling other Synagro executive Pamela Racey that Jackson, Olumba and Kilpatrick have had a falling out and that Jackson is cutting them out financially. "There's a little pissing contest going on between them," Rosendall tells his boss. Shea then proceeded to enumerate the lies told by Rosendall: that he had met with Olumba when he hadn't, his saying that he knew nothing of the agreement with Kilpatrick and Olumba and that it was the first he had heard of Jackson cutting them out. When Racey tells Rosendall that Jackson needs to honor his obligations to Kilpatrick, he agrees that Jackson is wrong to cut them out. "Morally it's not right," Rosendall concurs. Two weeks later, on January 2nd 2008, Racey tells Rosendall in another recorded conversation that she is going to tell Jackson that "these folks brought you to the table" and that he will have to take care of Kilpatrick and Olumba. But possibly the most compelling argument brought forth by Shea today was the justification for cash payments to Bernard totaling $5,000.
Earlier in direct testimony, jurors saw a video from March 5th 2008 that showed Rosendall and Kilpatrick outside Bernard's condominium complex. At this point, the witness had begun cooperating with the FBI in their investigation. Rosendall testified that after leaving Kilpatrick, he went to his bank and got $2,500 out of his account. Then he called Bernard that same day, to meet with him again. More wired video showed Kilpatrick taking the "25" that Rosendall had for him. Then on April 14, 2008, Bernard and Rosendall met at a pancake restaurant in Southfield. Rosendall testified he gave Bernard $2,500 that came from the FBI. The FBI also reimbursed the witness for the earlier $2,500. Shea then played a December 20th 2007 recorded telephone conversation where Rosendall is overheard telling Kilpatrick that "everyone is one board to resolve" the agreement conflict and the Synagro CEO will be calling Jackson. "At the end of the day he never would have been involved without you," Rosendall assuages Kilpatrick. Freshly arrived to his Florida vacation destination later, Rosendall calls Kilpatrick and tells him he has just spoken with Olumba and that she is going to send him an invoice."So you guys are all straight," Rosendall tells Kilpatrick on the recording.
Shea then re-introduced a government exhibit of an invoice from Black Onyx, Olumba's company, from December 21st 2007 for $5,000. The defense lawyer stated that this was the invoice Olumba submitted in response to the telephone conversation with Rosendall.Despite the promises, Shea then said that $5,000 did not get paid before Christmas or even right after Christmas either. No agreed Rosendall. As part of Rosendall's direct testimony, the government had produced a recorded meeting at the Southern Fires restaurant on January 29th 2008. Rosendall testified that Kilpatrick declined the $2,500 in cash he attempted to hand him. Shea highlighted the portion of the transcript where Kilpatrick makes clear he doesn't want cash.
"Yeah I thought that you was bringing a check. That we talked about in December..." says Bernard.So as a result, concluded Shea says, the $5,000 invoice was still outstanding and nothing was paid on it until March 5th 2008 with the last payment was on April 14th 2008."Yes," agreed Rosendall yet again.
There will be no court on Monday due to the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Court resumes next Tuesday at 9AM.

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In Osseo Area Schools, we respect the choice you've made to homeschool your child. We want to be sure you are aware of resources and opportunities available to you through Osseo Area Schools, and that you know how to comply with state reporting requirements.
Opportunities and support: Providing value to your family
Academic Shared Time
Students attending non-public schools on a full-time basis may participate in Osseo Area Schools academic courses on a limited basis. See Academic Shared Time Policy and Procedure 546.
Aid Reimbursement
Homeschool students are eligible for some state aid. To be eligible for reimbursements, you must complete form #ED-01650-33 and return it to us by October 1, 2020. Submitting the form indicates that you will be seeking reimbursement; all receipts must be submitted to the school district by May 1, 2021. The preliminary authorized reimbursement rate per eligible student for textbooks and standardized tests is $85.59. This rate may be adjusted on or about October 15.
Submit all required reporting forms by fax, email or mail no later than October 1, 2020 to:
Osseo Area Schools Educational Service Center
Attn: Erin Smith
11200 93rd Ave. N
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Fax: 763.391.7017
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Textbooks, Materials and Tests
Textbooks and instructional materials are eligible for reimbursement if they meet specific criteria. Reimbursement is allowed for secular (nonreligious) textbooks; standardized tests; and individual student instructional material allowed by state statute. If you submit receipts from a religious-based vendor, we will review the materials to ensure that they are secular in nature.
Health Services (vision, hearing, scoliosis, blood pressure testing; review of health and immunization records)
Homeschool students are eligible for the health services their local public school offers its enrolled students, as long as the costs for such services do not exceed the amount allocated by the Minnesota Department of Education. This allotment may not be used for reimbursement of health supplies.
Guidance and Counseling
Homeschool students in grades 7-12 are eligible for the guidance and counseling services their local public school offers its enrolled students, as long as the costs for such services do not exceed the amount allocated for guidance and counseling services by the state. Services may be provided at a mutually agreed upon location other than the student's home.
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Osseo Area Schools is responsible for locating, assessing and providing special education services to all qualified students, including homeschool students. If you think your child may have a disability, please contact Dr. Courtney Holmes.
In Minnesota, all children ages 7 to 17 are required to receive instruction, and the person providing instruction must report certain information to the local superintendent. Please indicate on your submitted form which nationally normed test you are using. The state recommends the Iowa Test of Basic Skills or the Stanford Achievement Test, both of which are available from the University of Minnesota. The following tests are accepted by Osseo Area Schools: ACT, California Achievement Test, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Iowa Test of Educational Development, NEWA Measures of Academic Progress, Peabody Individual Achievement Test, Stanford Achievement Test, Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement.
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Neon making 'good progress'
The father of Neon Roberts, whose mother failed in a legal bid to stop him having radiotherapy for a brain tumour, said his son is making "good progress" after receiving radiotherapy treatment.
Live updates
Sally Roberts says she will continue to fight the courts
The mother of Neon Roberts has told Daybreak she will continue to fight the courts over her son's treatment.
Sally Roberts said: "I've been seeking other options and I should be able to fight some form of a battle."
Neon Roberts, who underwent radiotherapy, against his mother's wishes will undergo chemotherapy in early April to treat his brain tumour.
Neon 'dealing with' some of the radiotherapy side effects
Neon Roberts' father said his son can get tired, and does need time to rest, but generally "he is his usual happy and playful self".
Neon Roberts underwent radiotherapy against his mother's wishes, after a High Court ruled last year that he should undergo the treatment.
A statement from Mr Roberts' lawyer added:
Neon's father: 'Optimistic about long-term prognosis'
A seven-year-old boy whose mother failed in a legal bid to stop him having radiotherapy for a brain tumour, is due to begin his chemotherapy treatment in early April, two days after his birthday.
Neon Roberts is said to be making "good progress" following a course of radiotherapy.
A statement released on his behalf by his lawyer said:
Neon Roberts making 'good progress' after treatment
Seven-year-old Neon Roberts is making "good progress" following his treatment, his father has said.
Late last year, Neon's mother Sally, failed in a legal bid to stop her son having radiotherapy for a brain tumour.
The High Court ruled that Neon should undergo radiotherapy for the cancerous tumour against her wishes.
Neon's father Ben - who is separated from Ms Roberts - said his son had completed the course of radiotherapy as planned.
Sally Roberts vows to continue fight for Neon
In an interview with Daybreak earlier, Sally Roberts insisted cancer treatment doctors are proposing will cause her son Neon long-term damage and despite a growing public backlash is still pushing ahead for alternative options.
ITV News reporter Sejal Karia examines the ongoing legal battle:
'Neon's care should be my choice'
Sally Roberts has defended her decision to try and prevent her son Neon having radiotherapy in an interview on Daybreak.
Ms Roberts said it should be her decision on how to treat her son and that the research she has done shows that the cancer treatment is not the only option:
Sally Roberts: 'I've never doubted my decision'
Sally Roberts has said that she has never doubted what she is doing for Neon is the right thing to do, asked if she has ever doubted herself she said, "no, I haven't".
Speaking on ITV Daybreak she was asked if is extraordinary to have never doubted her fight to stop Neon's radiotherapy:
Your reaction to Sally Roberts
As Neon Roberts' mother Sally appears back on the Daybreak sofa you have been sending your reaction to her fight to stop her son receiving radiotherapy:
Neon's mother's concern over radiotherapy treatment
Sally Roberts has exclusively told ITV Daybreak that she is concerned that radiotherapy treatment could be damaging to her son Neon, by affecting his DNA.
She said there are "so many" other treatments that her son could be having instead.
Neon's mum: Laws stop other treatments being investigated
Sally Roberts has blamed legislation for stopping her son Neon from receiving alternative therapy.
Speaking exclusively to Daybreak, Ms Roberts said that the 1939 Cancer Act means doctors are prevented from using anything but radiotherapy to treat him.
Ms Roberts wants her son to have other treatments instead over fears the radiotherapy could harm him overall health even if it treats the cancer.
She said her fears stem from the radiotherapy "damaging the DNA, altering it. And him never recovering from that."
Ms Roberts said that the legislation prevents research in to other treatments which might help Neon.
Latest ITV News reports
Medical issues surrounding child cancer treatments
As a mother takes the case of her son's cancer treatment to court with worries about side effects, we examine the medical issues.


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CAIRO (Reuters) - A man was shot dead on Monday in a fifth day of violence that has killed 50 Egyptians and prompted the Islamist president to declare a state of emergency in an attempt to end a wave of unrest sweeping the biggest Arab nation.
Emergency rule announced by President Mohamed Mursi on Sunday covers the cities of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez. The army has already been deployed in two of those cities and ministers agreed a measure to let soldiers arrest civilians.
A cabinet source told Reuters any trials would be in civilian courts, but the step is likely to anger protesters who accuse Mursi of using high-handed tactics of the kind they fought against to oust his military predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's politics have become deeply polarized since those heady days two years ago, when protesters were making the running in the Arab Spring revolutions that sent shockwaves through the region and Islamists and liberals lined up together.
Although Islamists have won parliamentary and presidential elections, the disparate opposition has since united against Mursi. Late last year he moved to expand his powers and pushed a constitution with a perceived Islamist bias through a referendum. The moves were punctuated by street violence.
Mursi's national dialogue meeting on Monday to help end the crisis was spurned by his main opponents.
They say Mursi hijacked the revolution, listens only to his Islamist allies and broke a promise to be a president for all Egyptians. Islamists say their rivals want to overthrow by undemocratic means Egypt's first freely elected leader.
Thousands of anti-Mursi protesters were out on the streets again in Cairo and elsewhere on Monday, the second anniversary of one of the bloodiest days in the revolution which erupted on January 25, 2011 and ended Mubarak's iron rule 18 days later.
"The people want to bring down the regime," they chanted Alexandria. "Leave means go, and don't say no!" they shouted.
Propelled to the presidency in a June election by the Muslim Brotherhood, Mursi has lurched through a series of political crises and violent demonstrations, complicating his task of shoring up the economy and of preparing for a parliamentary election to cement the new democracy in a few months.
Instability in Egypt has raised concerns in Western capitals, where officials worry about the direction of a key regional player that has a peace deal with Israel.
In Cairo on Monday, police fired volleys of teargas at stone-throwing protesters near Tahrir Square, cauldron of the anti-Mubarak uprising. A car was torched on a nearby bridge.
A 46-year-old bystander was killed by a gunshot early on Monday, a security source said. It was not clear who fired.
"We want to bring down the regime and end the state that is run by the Muslim Brotherhood," said Ibrahim Eissa, a 26-year-old cook, protecting his face from teargas wafting towards him.
The political unrest has been exacerbated by street violence linked to death penalties imposed on soccer supporters convicted of involvement in stadium rioting in Port Said a year ago.
As part of emergency measures, a daily curfew will be imposed on the three canal cities from 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) to 6 a.m. (0400 GMT). Residents have said they will defy it.
The president announced the measures on television on Sunday: "The protection of the nation is the responsibility of everyone. We will confront any threat to its security with force and firmness within the remit of the law," Mursi said, angering many of his opponents when he wagged his finger at the camera.
He offered condolences to families of victims. But his invitation to Islamist allies and their opponents to hold a national dialogue was spurned by the main opposition National Salvation Front coalition. Those who accepted were mostly Mursi's supporters or sympathizers.
The Front rejected the offer as "cosmetic and not substantive" and set conditions for any future meeting that have not been met in the past, such as forming a government of national unity. They also demanded that Mursi declare himself responsible for the bloodshed.
"We will send a message to the Egyptian people and the president of the republic about what we think are the essentials for dialogue. If he agrees to them, we are ready for dialogue," opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei told a news conference.
The opposition Front has distanced itself from the latest flare-ups but said Mursi should have acted far sooner to impose security measures that would have ended the violence.
"Of course we feel the president is missing the real problem on the ground, which is his own policies," Front spokesman Khaled Dawoud said after Mursi made his declaration.
Other activists said Mursi's measures to try to impose control on the turbulent streets could backfire.
"Martial law, state of emergency and army arrests of civilians are not a solution to the crisis," said Ahmed Maher of the April 6 movement that helped galvanize the 2011 uprising. "All this will do is further provoke the youth. The solution has to be a political one that addresses the roots of the problem."
Rights activists said Mursi's declaration was a backward step for Egypt, which was under emergency law for Mubarak's entire 30-year rule. His police used the sweeping arrest provisions to muzzle dissent and round up opponents, including members of the Brotherhood and even Mursi himself.
Heba Morayef of Human Rights Watch in Cairo said the police, still hated by many Egyptians for their heavy-handed tactics under Mubarak, would once again have the right to arrest people "purely because they look suspicious", undermining efforts to create a more efficient and respected police force.
"It is a classic knee-jerk reaction to think the emergency law will help bring security," she said. "It gives so much discretion to the Ministry of Interior that it ends up causing more abuse, which in turn causes more anger."
(Additional reporting by Yasmine Saleh in Cairo, Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia and Abdelrahman Youssef in Alexandria; Editing by Giles Elgood, Peter Millership and Alastair Macdonald)
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Sugar is the most excellent drug found on this bio-diverse Earth, and it is the simplest image for our Modern World: white sand, sweet tasting crystals leading to a bad death.
This quick energy drug is ubiquitous within the foods that we allow into our bodies, yet at the same time, each sugar crystal is a tiny microcosm of sweetness delight. The sugar crystal is not natural; instead, this cultivated poison moves from a hard, tall green stalk into a black vomit inducing blob, and ultimately transformed into its refined purity of whiteness.
Sugar is a curse, a culinary staple, and it has a nauseous history of mass murder, which has acted even more criminally than another notorious, black sticky, pharmaceutical mess – opium. This furtive drug, Saccharum Officinarum, is quite tiny, yet so dangerous.
Not one state apparatus has attempted to ban it. If this drug has such an egregious history and is so harmful to our human bodies, then why does it lurk in every kitchen, and now sit ominously on every supermarket shelf, waiting for its simple victims to purchase such a deadly toxin?
The 1290s AD was a suffocating decade for some, yet a type of endless summer rotated around the northern hemisphere of Earth. For those slaves working in the Venetian Empire's sugar plantations, on the island of Crete – they were however experiencing the first tastes of medieval, concentration camp-death. Due to the previous extermination of the native trees, the Venetian slaves built those infernal sugar plantations out of graveyard stone. You won't find any of this history inside those official textbooks.
On this beautiful Mediterranean island, known for its glorious ancient history of cities, artistic genius and great warriors, the Venetian aristocratic parasites and merchants-soldiers, divided the sacred island into sections of prisoner of war-slave killing centers. This refined art of murder had developed a more efficient method in disposing of its unfortunate victims.
The heat in the slave death camps reached strangulation proportions. The massive ceramic vats of crushed sugar cane reeked of vomit pestilence splayed with fecal remains. It even looked like an excrement inferno coming out of a fiery hell mouth. Some slaves would suddenly drop dead from taking in its noxious fumes! Other slaves, dying through overwork while cutting the sugar cane in the humid, malodorous morass, would crawl into the sea in order to drown and feed the sharks. And then a few others, just died on the dirty, rocky paths to the plantations. The owners let them die alone, since the hungry rats and dogs might feed on their putrid flesh.
Eventually, the native Cretans had had enough, and they revolted around seventy years later. The Venetian imperial murderers destroyed Crete's moment of freedom. They would not be the last ones to foil Crete's desire for independence either. The Venetians would construct those killing centers on another Mediterranean island, called Cyprus, a couple of hundred of years later. Throughout the eastern Mediterranean, the Venetian naval empire established military ports, or castles, on the Dalmatian coast and around Greece, such as the city of Napflio, so the Grand Empire could protect its slave trading-sugar refining investments.
The Venetians kidnapped their human booty of slaves from every part of the Mediterranean world. It didn't matter whether they were Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Jews or Muslims, European, Asian or African. Any captured victim would do, since so many died within the first years of sugar plantation work. The Venetians also collaborated with the other Mediterranean slave trading medieval empires, such as the Genoese, the Pisans, the Catalans, the Arabs, the Byzantines and the so-called, Crusaders on the island of Malta, called the Knights of St. John, whose main business was also the slave trade.
Nobody beat those tight Venetians who had established proto-capitalist monopolies in expensive commodities. This maritime empire possessed the unstoppable construction of naval warships at the Arsenal factory. The Venetian imperial oligarchy was also ingenious in the art of backstabbing its trading partners, while it maintained secretive trade agreements-treaties across the globe.
Marco Polo was no discoverer. He was a Venetian spy-merchant who ensured trade agreements between the Mongol Khanates, such as the Mongol dominated Yuan Dynasty in China, and the Venetian Empire, or as they called themselves, La Serenissima.
The Venetians, supposed Catholics, maintained better relations with the Muslim Mamelukes in Egypt, the Muslim Ottomans in Turkey, and the Muslim Caliphate in Baghdad – than the Orthodox Christians Byzantines, who they had sieged, sacked, destroyed, and robbed mercilessly during the Fourth Crusade of 1215!
If the Venetians could not grab cheap prices in precious metals and expensively traded commodities, then they would suddenly attack their enemies – and rob the stuff. They periodically performed such double crosses against the powerful Turkish naval empire. The Venetians did allow all of their foreign traders to maintain storehouses on their properties, called Fondacchi.
The other European powers admired their violent wealth accumulation, while they hated their double dealing cheapness. Some three hundred years later, even the Pope joined a military alliance against this maritime empire of aristo-thieves and slothful degenerates. European aristo-parasites craved their elite consumption, such as fine glassware, elaborate window blinds, embroidered silk from China, carved ivory from the Orient, or most importantly, exotic spices from around the Earth. There was only one international market store, which always had plentiful supplies of hard to find products – the Venetians.
Medieval European elites developed a peculiar taste for a very particular Asian drug-spice, previously known for its monopoly trade name in the Islamic world, Al Sukkar, or as the Euros named it, Sugar. Before the Venetians, the Arabs were the premier traders in this Asian sweet spice. They had fashioned the dessert delights of marzipan. The Arabs also established massive slave plantations in Mesopotamia and in north Africa to cut the cane. The Muslim slave traders operated in the Balkans and Black Sea zone through the human trafficking of heathens, while they also moved their slave trading into East Africa for the kidnapping of some idolaters.
It was the Venetian Empire who first launched the modern, maritime gold mines of slave trading, human trafficking, large slave plantations, efficient mass murder, and the expert commoditization of Asia's most powerful drug – sugar. This evil, double-headed hydra of sugar and slavery amassed amazing wealth and power. By the 15th century, the Venetians transcended into the most formidable naval empire on the planet.
Today, when tourists visit the canals, bridges and plazas of Venezia, they look astounded at the sublime beauty, architectural glory and intricate building design that permeates the entire, ancient city. We must never forget where this outward prettiness came from – the maleficent twin fists spewing out of proto-capitalism: slavery and sugar.
Sugar is the most prevalent and most dangerous pharmaceutical drug on the planet. This is the true reason why criminal states and governments across the globe refuse to ban it. Sugar's sweet taste and quick hit of energy have also transformed this drug into the greatest medical-dental gift. Sugar continues to fill corporate doctors' pockets with a steady line of customers for further drugging and expensive surgeries.
Sugar's most abominable crimes are not its legacies of mortal disease, incurable diabetes, horrifying obesity and terminal illness, but its contemptible historical associations with mass kidnapping, mass slavery, and mass murder.
It was not always this way. Sugar originally came from New Guinea, and it slowly moved west becoming the sweet salts of the tropics across the Indian subcontinent. Once sugar entered the processing stage into its white crystal form, greedy merchants wanted to monopolize both its production and distribution. Sugar then had to resort to its loathsome use of slave labor in order to produce the white mess of sweet destruction.
Copying the evil legacy of the Venetian slave trading-sugar plantation inferno, other European maritime empires entered into the sugar-slavery profit windfall.
The first Atlantic mass murderers were the Portuguese who would build their massive navy, during the same period when Venice was the premier naval power. The Portuguese constructed bulky trading ships for the Atlantic Sea, which was a lot larger, brutal and unpredictable than the Mediterranean Sea, and the Portuguese sailed south – well into Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Portuguese invaders established similar castle fortresses like the Venetians, which also featured pre-modern prison-like, jail cells for captured slaves dying in their metal chains. The Portuguese began purchasing their slaves as captured war booties from other African nations. Migratory African population movements due to climate and warfare, also enabled the Portuguese to establish mixed race hunters, meaning mixed European and African traders, who constantly supplied the Portuguese with kidnapped victims.
Copying the Venetian soldier thugs, the Portuguese naval criminals brought sugar cane plantations from the Mediterranean to their Atlantic archipelagos and African coast islands, such as Madeira and Sao Tome. Sugar was a tropical plant and it worked splendidly. African slaves died off after a few years. Once the planters worked the unfortunates to death, the colonial soldiers dumped the human excrement into the mighty Atlantic for shark feed.
When the Portuguese took the American Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in 1500, they planted sugar plantations everywhere – after they had first exterminated the Brazil wood tree and the Tupamori Nation in the north part of the country. After five centuries of sugar cane plantations and African slavery, northeast Brazil now has the same topography as the Moon.
The Portuguese first used captured Tupamori and Guarani natives from the southern part of the country, around Sao Paolo. The natives died off en masse working to death on sugar plantations, while others had escaped deep within the Amazon interior. No Portuguese peasant was willing to work to death in Brazil, so the Portuguese began their mass kidnapping-mass murder campaign with Africans, transported from their port prison colonies of Guinea, Angola, Kongo and Mozambique. By the 1600s, the Portuguese Empire had become the richest slave and sugar trading system in the Americas. In 1640 they revolted from Spanish control.
The other European Atlantic powers looked in envy at Portugal, and so they too joined in the mass kidnapping-mass murder of Africans spree in order to monopolize the Triangular Trade.
Triangular Trade implied selling the Africans to the Sugar planters in the Americas, next making their victims work to death on the sugar plantations. The ship captains would transport the Sugar to Europe, which was a monetary commodity in itself. The European 'traders' would then travel again to Africa, so as to replenish the sugar hells with more African victims. The Spanish, French, English, Dutch and even the Danish and Swedes joined in this evil Mercantile Capitalist system. Most of Europe's royal families made their more profitable investments through this shocking economy.
By the 1700s, the European colonial-settler invaders had successfully exterminated the native Caribs and most of the tree life on many of the West Indian islands. All across the Caribbean archipelagos, massive sugar plantation-extermination centers opened their veins. Those extermination centers transformed into tropical dungeons through the arts of murdering Africans, with the processing of cane into pure white sugar. In Brazil, the average life expectancy of an African slave on a sugar plantation was only five years!
With this massive liquidation of natives, trees and Africans, there also emerged ex-slave African communities across the Americas, called maroons in English, cimarrones in Spanish, marronage in French, and palenques in Portuguese. In Spanish Florida, a community of escaped African slaves and Seminole natives created their own viable communities. The US Government would exterminate that group during the first half of the 1800s.
Most of the Europeans that used sugar were the aristo-parasites who dumped the sweet white salts into their refined tastes for African Coffee, Asian Tea and American Chocolate. But as sugar production increased all across the American tropics, planters needed to process the black mess into other products. They successfully created Molasses and Rum. By the mid 1700s, most of Europe's working classes began to use sugar as a food substitute, which withstood the pangs of hunger, and yet released brief spurts of energy.
This wider consumption of sugar across Europe, also explains the Golden Age of Pirates and Buccaneers in the Caribbean during the 18th century, (1700s). Sugar was another expensive commodity for successful trading, included within the monetary delights of gold, silver and copper, with the precious objects trade of pearls, jade stones, diamonds, silks, ivory and porcelain. Sugar started a new industry across Europe, called confectionary, or in Italian, dolce, which in turn created our modern, candies. Some wealthy Europeans began to grow large bodies from eating so much sweet crap.
With this wider use of sugar, more Europeans began to lose their teeth. It is no accident that the first works on modern Dentistry emerged out of this same period. The French doctor, Pierre Fuchard, wrote Le Chirugien Dentiste, in 1728. Like today, with rotting teeth due to sugary after effects, the solution was extraction and the setting of false teeth.
Sugar production and slavery were so lucrative that American African slavery continued well into the late 1800s. The last country to liberate their African slaves was Portuguese speaking Brazil, in 1888.
As Industrial Capitalism grew in the 19th century, capitalists found sugar substitutes in beets, such as beet sugar, while we now have multiple GMO sugar substitutes, which also includes most beet sugar products, and other monstrosities, such as Splendida, Sweet N Low, and the worst GMO product of them all, High Fructose Corn Syrup. The only sweet sugar substitute that doesn't fall into these categories is Xylitol.
So here we have the sordid history of the sweet drug of sugar cane. If one travels to the US state of Florida, off the main highways, one can still visit horrid sugar plantations with dying slaves, now containing both white and black victims. When they lose their will to work, the slaves lie around and just wait to die on the property. As sugar rots the topsoil of the land, it encroaches into the natural Everglades ecosystem murdering even more trees and other native plant life.
Amerikan corporate chain supermarkets mostly sell GMO food crap that contains massive amounts of sugar, sugar by-products, glucose, sucrose and a whole list of GMO sugar substitutes. It is not just the sweet stuff, but also the canned goods, the frozen items, the prepared foods, and everyday products, such as dairy and meats – where they all contain some amount of sugar. Finding actual food products with 0 grams of sugar is usually the exception to the rule.
With this oppressive reign of sugary terror, millions suffer the debilitating health effects of rotten teeth, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. Maybe this is the eternal curse emanating from the African victims of the Atlantic slave trade and killing centers in the Americas. The Americas are experiencing the bad karma of sugar's history – with no escape from its malevolent colonial consequences. Like the State itself, sugar is completely legal, and yet it kills so wonderfully.


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By Chris Wright
This is neat, a little pointless, but neat none-the-less – an infographic showing, on a country by country basis, the position from which every single goal has been scored at Euro 2012 so far…
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that England have scored from both the furthest out and the closest in. Who'd have thought that Theo Walcott's wiffle-ball wobbler would be the tournament's longest-range screamer to date? Incroyable.
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Kids love to add wiggly eyes to craft projects. Glue them on and watch them wiggle. Perfect gifts for children!
- Lots of round wiggly eyes
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- So vivid that can sure attract children's attention
- Flat back for easy pasting or gluing
- Great for decoration of kids clothes, puppets, dolls and cards
- Perfect for children to develop hands-on ability
- Diameter: Approx. 8mm
- Thickness: Approx. 2.6mm
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, will go into effect next year amidst considerable controversy and without a clear understanding of what it will do, how much it will cost and how it will change the face of U.S. health care.
In fact, it has pleased no one. It is unlikely that, as matters now stand, it will completely eradicate the problem of the uninsured, who delay being diagnosed and treated and end up relying on costly alternatives, such as hospital emergency rooms.
To get passed, Obamacare also avoided taking on powerful players in the industry: doctors, insurers, for-profit medical and care facilities and drug companies. While failing to boost competition or institute meaningful cost controls, Obamacare will increase budget deficits and create another unwieldy federal bureaucracy.
It is also clear that Obamacare will not be the comprehensive reform package for the country's health care industry that both Democrats and Republicans claim America desperately needs. Indeed, health care spending has been growing 1.5 times as fast as GDP. Even though in 2009-11 the growth rate slowed, health care spending now stands at $2.7 trillion and continues to rise in relative terms. Its share of GDP will likely surpass 20% by 2021, and projections of recent growth trends forward put it at 50–70% of GDP by 2080.
Moreover, these calculations do not take into account "imponderables." Long-term projections made in 1960 could not, obviously, foresee the invention of new technologies and drugs, envision successes in treating and curing a number of deadly diseases and anticipate today's healthier lifestyles—all of which have led to a steady increase in life expectancy for all Americans and boosted health care spending and costs.
Bad for Washington
In the final third of the 20th century, the federal government effectively became the underwriter of the American healthcare system. It provided access to care for many more Americans, especially the elderly, but it was also a crucial factor in allowing medical costs to escalate.
In 1960, when according to the Census Bureau the country spent just $187 billion on health care, 47% of that was paid for by patients themselves. Currently, out-of-pocket spending stands at just over 10%. Naturally, 50 years ago patients had a stronger incentive to shop around for cheaper services and to look over their health care provider's shoulder to make sure they were not getting unnecessary procedures.
The contribution by the government, on the other hand, nearly doubled. In the 1960s, various public funds from all sources footed the national bill for a quarter of healthcare spending, but today the government pays for nearly one-half. Medicare and Medicaid account for 20% and 15% of total U.S. health care spending, respectively.
The federal government's spending on health care makes up around 5% of its total outlays (roughly equaling this year's projected federal budget deficit). However, that share will jump next year, when the ACA goes into effect and overall health care expenditures increase by 7.4%. Current trends suggest that the share of federal spending on health care will surpass 10% by midcentury, leaving less and less for defense, Social Security and other purposes.
Even if we believe the optimistic projections of the Obama administration and ignore its critics, we'll still be told that sooner or later medical spending will bankrupt the U.S.
However, this may be a wrong way of looking at the issue or, rather, an incomplete one. True, further increases in health care costs will be bad—and possibly disastrous—for government finances. However, they are likely to be good for the U.S. economy and, equally important, for U.S. exports. And, since government finances will depend on the overall health of the economy, the future may not look so dim after all.
Medicare Benefit
Take the prescription drug program for seniors known as Medicare Part D, passed by the Bush administration in 2003. It was criticized at the time as a wasteful boondoggle and many fiscal conservatives voted against it. Even though its actual costs have been almost half the $111.2 billion projected at the time, it still adds $60 billion annually to the federal budget.
But consider the benefits. Prescription drug sales in the United States experienced a one-off jump of $140 billion in 2006, the year the program was enacted, reaching $3.4 trillion. Higher spending on prescription drugs since then has provided a shot in the arm for Big Pharma at a time when many leading drug companies were sitting on expiring patents and had few blockbuster drugs in the pipeline.
Since the start of this year, healthcare-related, pharmaceutical, biotech and life science sectors have been the best performers of the 2013 stock market rally. While biotech startups as a group may be vulnerable to an eventual increase in U.S. interest rates, pharma-centered ETFs have been rising strongly. Small wonder: Drug companies have been coming out with new generation drugs to treat serious diseases. For example, shares of Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) popped this year after several years in the doldrums, thanks to its new diabetes drug.
The health care sector has been immune to the jobs crisis that impacted the U.S. economy over the past five years. While the overall U.S. labor market has yet to return to its pre-2008 levels, employment growth in health care and social assistance has continued to average 2% annually. In fact, since 2001 the number of jobs in the field increased by 28%, to nearly 19 million—while overall job growth has been an anemic 5% over the same period.
While health care and biotech have long been mainstays of such cities as San Diego and Boston, the industry is helping depressed industrial regions to reinvent themselves. The city of Pittsburgh has done this successfully over the years and Louisville has benefitted from the presence of Humana Hospital. Cleveland, a perennial rustbelt laggard, has a strategy to attract life science companies and biotech startups centering on its world-renowned Cleveland Clinic.
Export Potential
World renown, in fact, is key to the future of the U.S. health care sector, broadly defined, because its medicine remains the best in the world and it leads globally in scientific innovation.
The phenomenon of medical tourism has traditionally centered on Americans traveling to less developed countries, such as Mexico, Argentina or India, to get costly treatment. But now that emerging economies have started to grow a middle and upper middle class, a reverse trend has been in evidence. Those who can afford it, flock to the U.S. to get state-of-the-art medical care.
Moreover, the development of communication technologies now allows patients to be monitored by their doctors remotely. This will become widespread as medical advances increasingly transform acute illnesses, such as cancer, into chronic conditions.
Drugs, medical equipment and medical devices have always had vast export potential. The problem was that the rest of the world was too poor to provide demand. This is likely to change, as well, once incomes increase worldwide. Moreover, by the second half of the 21st century demographers expect life expectancies in developing countries to increase and their populations to age. Advances in geriatric medicine that U.S. health care and life sciences companies are making today will have substantial export markets three decades from now.
The health care sector will contribute to the overall health of the U.S. economy, adding jobs and paying taxes. Moreover, as was the case in the computing sector, technological and scientific progress have the potential to reduce costs over the long run.
So far, in health care, progress has been responsible mainly for boosting costs, while cost reductions have been modest, such as shorter hospital stays and patient information sharing. But eventually cost cuts may prove significant, especially if science not only extends lifespans but slows aging and senescence. Such advances require investment, which profligate federal government spending seems willing to provide.


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We are growing with 171 of 620 parishes and villages now covered!
The County
Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. Bordered by the counties of Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west; the county is also partly bounded to the north and west by the coast of the Bristol Channel. The county can be divided into three ecclesiastical jurisdictions, the Archdeaconries of Bath, Wells and Taunton.
The city/county of Bristol lies on the borders of Somerset and Gloucestershire. This is a grey area for many family historians. A person stating that they were born in Bristol may have been registered in Gloucestershire or Somerset. In general, however, the parishes on the south side of the river Avon are in the Somerset registration district and those on the north side are in Gloucestershire. There are of course exceptions to this "rule-of-thumb".
For the sake of uniformity between the OPC project, FreeReg and the Bristol_and_Somerset mail list we will include the parishes of the county of Bristol within the scope of the Somerset OPC Project.
The Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project:
An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council. An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, and transcribes records. They may also offer a look up service in response to an email or postal request.
In order to promote further private research, information is made FREELY available to any researcher. This will include census returns, Church register transcripts, bishop's transcripts, churchwardens accounts, overseers accounts, land tax records, postal directory extracts, church and village histories, in fact anything our volunteers can find which other researchers may find interesting. The OPC scheme encourages people to make transcriptions available on this website, but this is not a pre-requisite to being an OPC. Offering a look up service is an alternative approach as is publishing the information on an OPC's own website or elsewhere. It takes time to transcribe and accumulate material, an OPC may not yet have full data for all these sources.
The Somerset OPC project needs the efforts of many people to make it a success. If you are be interested in helping make these vital records available, please click one of the buttons on the left for more information or to volunteer - the more help we get the faster the information will be available to all!
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A few months back, Ed Mitchell, a designer at the Philadelphia-based product design firm Bresslergroup, was listening to an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible dedicated to local flags, and it got him thinking about the banners we fly for our 50 states. "I was immediately bothered by how discordant they are as a group." he remembers, "And I wasn't surprised to learn they break just about every rule of flag design." So, amidst the backdrop of a fractious, fighting Congress, Mitchell decided to come up with a single visual language that could be used to redesign the whole lot, all in the name of making our Union a little more, um, united.
Mitchell started by researching the current flags. Many were born in the last decade of the 19th century, when states wanted their own unique banners to fly at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Many southern states, like Mississippi and Georgia, drew from old Confederate iconography; others like New Mexico and Maryland incorporated symbolism unique to their state; others still, like Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas and more reverted to a template of sorts: a state seal centered against a plain, navy blue backdrop.
To figure how what direction to take with his redesigns, Mitchell consulted the principles outlined in 1969 by the International Federation of Vexillological Associations–the worldwide flag people. Their five rules of good flag design, put generally: 1. flags should be simple enough to be drawn by a child; 2. they should use meaningful symbolism; 3. they should use only two or three basic colors; 4. no text or seals allowed; 5. be distinctive, or be related–not duplicative. Going by these guidelines, Mitchell points out, our current state flags fall short on a few fronts. Thirty six states currently use more than three colors, and 27 proudly feature their state seal.
Then it was time for the hard part: actually coming up with a look for the new flags. Mitchell's first move was to strip away "everything that reminded me of a divided nation," he writes. All the Confederate-related stars and bars had to go. He took up some new symbols: the star and the stripe, for obvious reasons, along with the eagle, the olive branch, the shield, and Lady Liberty. He focused on geography as a key to a state's visual identity, using blue to represent water, and triangles to represent hills, valleys and mountains. He also shrunk down the proportion of the flag, making it 1 by 1.5–a slightly boxier version than the longer 1 by 1.9 American flag, and a shape that looks appropriately subordinate flying under the Stars and Stripes on a flagpole.
The resulting 50 flags certainly do operate as a cohesive whole. Some flags, like Colorado and New Mexico, retained their general appearance, just getting a makeover with more patriotic colors. Others saw total symbolic overhauls: Mitchell's flag for Kansas, for example, shows two interlaced arrows–one red, one blue–centered around a white star. "The intertwined arrows represent the joining of the frontiersman and the statesman who are shaking hands on the existing state seal," he writes. Plus, the arrows echo the general shape of a "K." Maryland's current flag is a visually chaotic juxtaposition of the coats of arms of two of the state's founding families. Mitchell kept those well-liked elements but combined them into a more visually unified design–a "simple refinement" he says.
In many cases, Mitchell's simple flags are a good deal less exciting than their odd forebears. And it's hard not to miss some of the more unusual visual miscellanea that the new designs do away with. Still, Mitchell sees value in the cohesion. "I would personally prefer to adhere to the idea of keeping our state and national symbolism current and meaningful," he says, "which does not mean abandoning history but celebrating progress."
Of course, the real question with such a project is this: Why do we need unified flags in the first place? How often do we compare our state flags, anyway? Do their differences really drive us apart? And the big one: is a more cohesive collection of flags really worth sacrificing the history that comes with the ones we're familiar with today? Almost certainly not. Many would probably argue that our idiosyncratic flags are actually the perfect reflection of a largely idiosyncratic collection of states. We didn't start this thing all at once: States joined in, territories were annexed, borders were drawn–and all along the way, flags were made.
Mitchell acknowledges as much, but he does think there's value in reminding ourselves–if only symbolically–that at the end of the day, these states of ours are supposed to be united. And if nothing else, his project does reflect that–the 50 redesigns are strongest, he says, when viewed as a set. "One of my favorite things is the way they sit together as a group," he says. "They are not perfect by any means, but I do like the way they read–and the overall message they send–when they are together."


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The ongoing federal budget battle has the potential to shape political careers, daily lives and yes, even TribFest.
The third annual Texas Tribune Festival has heavily touted co-founder and editor-in-chief Evan Smith's interview Friday evening with U.S. Sen Ted Cruz, a bigger get than ever in the wake of his talkathon this week aimed at Obamacare.
As Washington continues to struggle in the face of the threat of a government shutdown, the interview will still take place, but it will be by videoconference, Smith said.
Cruz will be set up in U.S. Sen. Mike Lee's office and will still take audience questions, he said.
"The events of the week became too much of a logistical hurdle to overcome," Smith said.
The festival has lost the 10 members of Congress who were scheduled to appear, including U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio, Smith said. He said some were on panels that included enough other participants that they'll still work, and others will be replaced.
"The only way to approach these kinds of circumstances is to smile and press on," Smith said.


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Easy Access Information
Wet Rooms
We currently have 12 wet rooms at the Manor and 4 at Ashbury. All of these rooms are suitable for wheelchair users and have a full shower room with no steps, a seat and grab rail in the shower, and bars and rails for the toilet. Due to such high demand for these rooms, we are in the process of converting more bathrooms into wet rooms.
Walk-In Showers
We also have a number of exceptionally well fitted walk in showers with a seat and grab rails. Whilst not suitable for wheelchair users, due to a small step into the shower, they are ideal for guests with limited mobility.
Ground Floor Rooms
We are currently in the process of adding grab rails to all of our ground floor rooms making them more suitable for guests who just need a little more help and support getting around the bathroom and into the bath/shower.
Mobility Scooters
To assist guests with limited mobility we have 5 wheelchairs and 10 mobility scooters available. Blue badge holders are able to pre-book these prior to arrival - a charge of £5 will apply, in addition to a £10 deposit. All other guests are able to hire these, for a small charge, on a first come - first served basis once they arrive at the hotels.
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£3 per day (£10 deposit applies)
Easy Access Pool Ramp
We are delighted to announce the development of our Manor Pool to include an Easy Access Ramp to allow those with mobility difficulties the ability to enjoy a range of hydro activities including pool walking.
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*Requests for Wet Rooms / Assistance Showers will be charged a 5% supplement. On presentation of a blue badge, or similar, this supplement will be removed.
Given the limited number of wet rooms / assistance showers available, we charge 5% to deter those who do not require the facilties. No charge is made for guests (ie blue badge holders) that do require the facilities.
AA Quality Standards Report
We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded 3 stars!
Following our continued efforts to improve our hotels and maintain our high level of service and hospitality, we recently had our AA quality inspection and are pleased to announce that we were awarded 3 stars at both hotels.
The inspection entails an undercover AA inspector taking a night's stay in our hotels. They then rate our hospitality, service and food, amongst many other standards, and award a score as a measure of our overall performance.
We must state, that as part of these assessments there is no section takes into account the unrivalled sports, craft, leisure and spa facilities we proudly offer. We therefore are only marked on our hotel standards which include service, cleanliness, bedrooms, public areas and food, amongst others. Nevertheless, we received a very positive report and below are some of the comments made by the AA inspector:
Cleanliness – "very good levels on cleanliness throughout"
Service & Hospitality – "very good check-in" along with "Polite and professional service throughout"
Food – "All meals prepared with a good level of skill/care/presentation"


text: Einstein College of Medicine Hosts Rare Disease Art Exhibit News12 - March 04, 2019 Steven Walkley, Ph.D., D.V.M., explains that the goal of the exhibit is to raise awareness of rare diseases and to stimulate research in order to develop treatments. Dr. Walkley is director of the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at Einstein and Montefiore. Wall Street Journal interviews Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., and Steven Walkley, D.V.M., Ph.D., about the connection between the rare genetic disease Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) and Ebola. Dr. Chandran's research suggests that the gene mutation responsible for NPC may offer protection against Ebola. Dr. Walkley notes that it is well-known that carriers of certain genetic diseases might have protection against other diseases, citing that carriers for sickle-cell disease might be protected against malaria. Dr. Chandran is associate professor of microbiology & immunology and holds the Harold and Muriel Block Faculty Scholar in Virology. Dr. Walkley is director of the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and professor of pathology, of neurology and of neuroscience at Einstein. (subscription only) More coverage on this story The Scientist CBSNews.com November 3, 2014 The Wall Street Journal highlights groundbreaking research by Steven Walkley, D.V.M., Ph.D., that has led to treatment options for the rare condition Niemann-Pick Type C. In a lengthy cover story covering at least six years of reporting, journalist Amy Marcus details the passion that drove Walkley to continue his research on the drug cyclodextrin – and explores how parents and scientists have joined forces to find more effective treatments. November 14, 2013 The New York Daily News interviews Robert Marion, M.D., and Steven Walkley, D.V.M., Ph.D., about Einstein's leap year event showcasing the talents of young people with rare diseases in order to raise awareness of their conditions. The event will highlight the abilities of the participants and encourage partnerships among researchers to help find much-needed treatments. Dr. Marion is chief of genetics and developmental medicine at Einstein and Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Walkley is director of the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at Einstein. February 29, 2012 The Wall Street Journal highlights remarks by Steven Walkley, D.V.M., Ph.D., on the NIH's Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program, which just announced funding for five projects struggling to develop drug therapies for rare diseases, including the fatal neurodegenerative disease Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC). Dr. Walkley, who helped identify a potential drug treatment for NPC by testing FDA-approved medications, notes that the TRND program is promising, but offers no guarantees. Dr. Walkley is professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience. July 27, 2010